30 Delicate and Pretty Hand-drawn Mandala Designs printed on one side of page

This is a coloring book of 30 delicately hand-drawn mandalas. The lines are thin but well printed. I find that when I color one of these designs, I think of airy and open spaces a really lovely way to de-clutter my mind. There are intricate and small areas in a number of the designs but nothing too stressful to color using various choices of coloring medium. There are also open designs that allow for a lot of blending and shadowing techniques if you choose to go that route. I like coloring mandalas and find that hand-drawn ones are especially fun for me. I don’t feel the rigorous need to get my color lines perfect (like that would happen for me, anyway) but, instead, I can make my errors look like part of the design.

All of the designs stop well before the binding. The designs are printed on one side of thin white non-perforated paper that is typical for books published by CreateSpace. The binding is glued but there is plenty of room for you to cut a page out if you choose to do so. In my copy, there is design where the design is ever so slightly cut off on one side. It is something I can easily correct in coloring, so it isn’t an issue for me; however, it is something the publisher may want to correct when they print the book in the future.

All of my markers bleed through and my gel pens either bleed through or leave a distinct shadow on the back of the page. My coloring pencils work well with the paper according to their type though, as usual for CreateSpace, my hard lead pencils are apt to leave an indent on the back on the page. I will use a piece of chipboard or heavy paper behind the page I am working on so I don’t ruin the following page with leaking ink. I will list the coloring medium I used to test this coloring book in the comments section below.

Whenever I purchase a coloring book published by CreateSpace, I know that the quality of paper will be fairly thin. The color of the paper is good and the surface takes pencil well. The trade-off for me is the variety of artists that I have access to through this self-publishing group. If you have any coloring book by this publisher, at this point in time, you will know what type of paper you will have on any future books. While I was given a copy of this book, I purchase a number of CreateSpace published coloring books on a regular basis.

I was provided a free sample of this coloring book for test and review purposes.